From Pakistan to Britain, the process of settlement, households and family relationships, the idiom of caste, Biradari solidarity and cousin marriage, honour and shame - gender and generation, health illness and the reproduction of the Biradari, taking and giving - domestic rituals and female networks, public faces - leadership, religion and political mobilization

Kinship and Continuity is a vivid ethnographic account of the development of the Pakistani presence in Oxford, from after World War II to the present day. Alison Shaw addresses the dynamics of migration, patterns of residence and kinship, ideas about health and illness, and notions of political and religious authority, and discusses the transformations and continuities of the lives of British Pakistanis against the backdrop of rural Pakistan and local socio-economic changes. This is a fully updated, revised edition of the book first published in 1988.